You think these recent events are everything. You think Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since childhood...…..The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions - Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.
once we expect a pattern, we seek out examples and ignore the counterexamples. If you take note of the predictions by a psychic that are born out by events, but don't divide by the total number of predictions, correct and incorrect, you can get any probability you want. As Francis Bacon noted in 1620, such is the way of all superstitions, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, or divine judgments.
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” - Neil Gailman
primary instrument of propaganda
Not only is it the primary instrument of propaganda, the lens through which people see and interpret the world (or have the world interpreted for them), but the media— encompassing TV and the web—is also the new opiate of the people, replacing religion.
People who have their TV are happy people, and happy people don’t revolt.
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Devaluation: The naysayers are disparaged or false claims are made against them in smear campaigns that discredit them and, by association their research.
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No science here
No science here
In combating the Covid-19 virus, governments said they were “ following the science. ’’But science isn’t a set system of beliefs: it’s an ongoing argument that constantly tests prevailing theories.
Many of the assumptions made at the beginning of the outbreak have since been found to be exaggerated or wrong. The virulence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus didn’t cause the number of deaths originally forecast, and the virus is only around twice as lethal as seasonal flu, as Harvard’s John loannidis had predicted at the start, but his pro jections were dismissed.
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